Phishing — the art of depriving folk of their sensitive password data and then using it to empty their pockets — has become the scam du jour of the holiday season. The Anti-Phishing.org website says it has seen ‘dramatic’ growth in November and December of email spoofing (emails claiming to be from, for example, your… Read More »
Here’s an interesting postscript to recent money scams, courtesy of The Melbourne Age (via the Indonesian Expat Newsletter). An Australian received an email promising him money for nothing; he replied with his details to the sender of the email and found within a couple of hours $23,000 in his bank account. He was then asked… Read More »
Loose Wire — Calling All Suckers By Jeremy Wagstaff from the 11 July 2002 edition of the Far Eastern Economic Review, (c) 2003, Dow Jones & Company, Inc. I wish people would stop being so cynical. Why do they assume that every spam e-mail they receive is a scam? Just because the pitch “Hi,… Read More »